Engineering Manager, Mortgage
Leads a team of approximately eight engineers building mortgage income and employment verification systems, including APIs, integrations, AI/ML models, and customer-facing experiences. Requires substantial engineering and management experience, strong architecture judgment, incident leadership, and experience with regulated products.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own delivery and technical direction for the Mortgage Verifications team as it scales its self-serve verification product.
- Drive team-level AI adoption with guardrails, baselines, and measurable impact.
- Co-own product direction with the product manager by shaping problems and creating alignment.
- Lead platform modernization while shipping features in a highly regulated, high-stakes domain.
- Manage production incidents as technical and communications lead.
- Develop engineers’ careers, support promotions, and identify growth paths.
- Hire senior and staff-level engineers.
- Represent team priorities and progress to product and executive stakeholders using data and sound methodology.
Requirements
- 4+ years of engineering management experience and 8+ years of engineering experience.
- Track record of rolling out AI adoption across an engineering team with measured baselines and guardrails.
- Strong quantitative fluency, including business-impact metrics, methodology, and baselines.
- Experience co-owning product direction and shaping problems with Product.
- Experience managing production incidents in systems at scale.
- Experience with regulated, high-stakes products where data accuracy and compliance matter, such as fintech, healthcare, or identity.
- Strong system design and architecture judgment.
- Track record of developing engineers and building inclusive, high-functioning teams.
- Openness to feedback, curiosity, bias for action, resilience, and ownership.
Compensation and Benefits
- On-target earnings or base salary: $233,000–$274,000 USD for San Francisco, California.
- Competitive cash and equity compensation.
- Learning and development allowance.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Up to $25,000 reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Expected to work from the office at least 3 days per week.
Skills
Ai Adoption, Machine Learning, APIs, System Design, Software Architecture, Production Systems, Incident Management, Product Management, Data Accuracy, Compliance, Platform Modernization, Quantitative Analysis
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